Retired Bishop Sebastian Bakare led a team of Anglicans in endorsing Tsvangirai for the presidency at the party’s rally at Sakubva Stadium in Mutare in eastern Zimbabwe earlier this month. Bakare equated Tsvangirai to the biblical Nehemiah who led the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem. “Zimbabweans are like the ...

Mrs Grace Murindagomo (nee Tsanga) the widow of the first African Anglican bishop, the Rt Rev Patrick Murindagomo, has died. She was 85. Her husband was the first African Anglican Bishop in the then Rhodesia in 1974. She married her husband in 1949. They moved to Penhalonga (18 km north of Mutare in ...

Popular Zimbabwean musician Hosiah Chipanga is set to introduce sermons at his shows. Chipanga could not, however, divulge the time he will spend on the pulpit before strumming the guitar. The veteran musician said the church will soon have branches across Zimbabwe. Chipanga does not know the total number of ...

Villagers in Makoni, Manicaland Province, are living in fear of losing their cash and cattle after a group of self-styled traditional healers called Dombodvuku invaded the area in a witchhunt to allegedly cleanse the area of bad omens and goblins. In exchange for this ‘cleansing’ exercise the Dombodvuku traditional healers ...

Excommunicated Anglican Bishop Elson Jakazi who wrestled the Diocese of Manicaland (eastern part of Zimbabwe) from the Church of the Province of Central Africa (CPCA) is holding to the church properties notwithstanding a Supreme Court ruling that left his Harare counterpart Nolbert Kunonga dry. In an interview with RelZim.org, Jakazi said ...

The Anglican Church of the Province of Central Africa (CPCA) says it is waiting for a letter from the Supreme Court to enable it to move back to its properties in Manicaland that are currently in the hands of renegade Bishop Elson Jakazi. Jakazi, who along with Nolbert Kunonga pulled ...

The Anglican Diocese of Manicaland is dealing with problems faced by St Augustine’s Mission School in an amicable manner because it is under its jurisdiction, the province’s head Bishop Elson Jakazi said.  He said he will meet with the Secretary for Education, Sport, Arts and Culture, Mrs Constance Chigwamba, in ...

A clinic built under the Constituency Development Fund in Chipinge East (Manicaland Province) was handed over to the United Church of Christ in Zimbabwe (UCCZ) recently. Speaking at the handover ceremony at Muswera Community Centre the MP for the area, Matewu Mathias Mlambo, said the community had agreed to hand ...

Mutare-based gospel musician Blessing Shumba has been appointed brand ambassador for the Manicaland National Blood Services Zimbabwe. The gospel artist, who scooped an award at the National Arts Merit Awards last February, joins the list of other artists such as Sandra Ndebele, Tryson Chimbetu, Jah Prayzah and Fungisai Zvakavapano-Mashavave who have ...

reprinted with additions from the Catholic Herald  Robert Mercer, the fourth Anglican bishop of Matabeleland, was ordained a priest for the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in the UK end of last month.  The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham is a personal ordinariate of the Roman Catholic Church immediately subject to ...